The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-05

Hollis, Mauch Chunk.
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E. II. Hollis, Mauch Chunk.
"A Wilkesbarre alderman, named Croft
has received word from Holland that he has
fallen heir to II fortune of $76,O00.OO0.
We are pleased to note that Mrs. Robt
Klotz, of Mauch Chunk, is convalescins
after protracted illness of some months.
Passenger engine No. $40, running be-
tween Mauch Chunk and Easton, has beer
taken to the South Easton shops for repairs
-Rebeeca and Sarah Buck, aged respec
lively seventy and thirty-fve years, resi-.
dents of Berks county, suicided on Tues.
day.
"A six days walking match has been
arranged to come off at Easton, commenc.
ing March l4th. The prize money will be
5000,
Arthur Trizise, of Shenandoah, was
terribly burned by premature explosion
of powder in the Gilberton colliery, neal
the former place. Tuesday.
-Reigelsville, Northampton county, had
$3.50 fire on Monday The mysterious
origin of the fire leads people in that place
cendiary.
The bridge that spans the Lehigh river
at White Haven is seven hundred and
twenty feet long and was built at cost OF
| a II ;a l.
model of perfection in construction.
Three hundred and tnirty-seven liquor
licenses have been applied for in Schuylkill
county. The Prohibitionists will undoubt.
edly find plenty of work in Schuylkill to
suppress the growth of the liquor traffic.
A new passenger engine with all the
recent improvements has been completed
at the South Easton shops and will be sent
to Perth Amboy TO be broken in. During
the summer it will be used to run excursion
trains.
james and Elmer Yenser, of town, had
narrow escape from drowning Monday
evening. The boys we're skating on He'll
mans mill dam, with number of COM
panions, when the ice breaking, they were
precipitated into the water.
John Douglass, aged fifty-four years,
died at the residence of his son-in law, in
Philadelphia, last week and was buried
Sunday. Deceased was well-kuown here
where he had many friends. He had been
in the employ of II. II. Peters, the tailor,
for several years past.
john Derr, a stock and grain broker,
doing business at Tamaqua and Lebanon,
greatly surprised his neghbors in the latter
place Monday bv clearing out the furniture.
tearing up the carpets and locking the door
of his house in that place His wife dis
appeared; they had been married ten years.
Our young friend Thomas Nusbaum
while skating on the ice which covers He'll
mans mill dam Monday, was precipitated
into the water. and but for the heroic cf-
forts OF Miss Ella Heberling, who fortun.
ate,y caught on TO Tom foot and screamed
Justify for help, he would have met a very
sad fate.
burglars entered the office of DR.. HilIe,
grass, near Allentown, recently and secur.
ing a safe weighing twelve hundred pounds
loaded 1t upon truck car oil the Perkiomer
railroad and started south; a train of cars
coming along, however, knocked the truck
to spinters and landed the safe in ditch
The safe was returned to the owner the
next day.
A Swiss law compels every newly-mar
ried couple to plant trees shortly after the
ceremony of marriage. The pine aud the
weeping willow are prescribed, but the bircl
is allowed as being prospectively useful. II
is the custom here, though not the law, fol
each and every newly-marred couple tc
hire one of David Ebbert's fancy teams ant
take drive through our picturesque valleys
The first annual grand ball under III,
auspices of Lehigh Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. l., of this place, will be held OIL
the evening of February 2lst, in Gabel,
Hall. The committee on arrangement,
have secured the celebrated Depierro Or
chestra, of Freeland, to furnish music OF
the occasion, and no effort will be spared
to make it grand success. Tickets, 81.
An exchange says: 1t is safe to sa,
that the miners employed in the Beave
Meadow mines are working for their coun
try and their company. Last Saturday wa
pay day. One miner drew 62 cents for hi
months work, another drew 50. 90, som,
drew mole and some less. There are abou
thirty.five miners in what is known as TIA,
Northwest gangway who complain that tn,
} price is TOO small and the air too bad 4
work in.
Charles Rehrig, of town, conductor OF
I-ehigh Valley train No. 1876 was very seri
ously injured Saturday. He was breaking
on a car loaded with lumber at Slatington
when the car bumped with considerable
force against another car, throwing tn
lumber forward on the brake, whereby hi
hand Was 50 severely crushed that for
7 time amputation was feared. He was takel
to st. Luke's Hospital, at Bethlehem, wher
he is doing well.
Experience has proven that the bes
) remedy for collie, diarrhoa, teething an,
other troubles OF infancy is DIR. Bulls Bah
Syrup. Price 25 cents.
The hog is a useful animal without
doubt, but If he has the cholera he is no
worth cent. To avoid cholera give you
swine Days Horse Powder
) Record of merit-the popular prais
accorded to DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills b
reason OF their wonderful worth as house
; hold remedy. Price 25 cents.